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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. REEDER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE KINGSLAND t DOUGLAS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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VSPIECIFICA'IION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,556, dated October 22, 1889.

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Beit known that 1, WILLIAM S. REEDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Struck-Corn Shellers, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying draw-Y ings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to means for separating the shucks from the cobs in shuck-corn shellers.

The invention will best be understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which* Figure 1 is a perspective of a part of a shuck-corn sheller having my invention ap! plied thereto. Figs. 2 and 3 are side views of a portion of a sheller having my means for separating the cobs from the shucks, showing Fig. 4 is a perspective of my device for separating the cobs from the shucks, and Fig. 5 isa side View of a modication.

The same gures of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

6 is a vibrating shoe in which the light foreign particles are separated from the grain and from which a blast issues. .This shoe is actuated in any suitable manner. The devices for actuating it form no part of this invention. Said shoe is hung from the top of the sheller 7 by links S, arranged upon each side of the machine.

9 is the separator, where the grain is separated from the shucks and cobs. This separator is hung from the top 7 of the machine rator 9 has an inclined bottom 11, up which by links 10 at each side thereof. The sepathe shucks and cobs are made to travel, as in the ordinary sheller. These features form no part of my invention, and are referred to 5o to illustrate the invention more clearly. Be-

tween these side boards are arranged a series Serial No. 311,406. (No model.)

of upturned ngers 14, which extend from a shaft 15, that is j ournaled in the sides of the separator 9. The exact shape of the fingers is clearly shown in the drawings. Rods 16 are rigidly secured to the ends of the shaft 15' where it protrudes through the sides of the separator and pass through an eye or staple 17, secured to the top 7 of the machine. The separator 9 is vibrated back and forth in any suitable way, which forms no part of this invention. As said separator 9 vibrates back and forth the shaft 15 will be turned in rst one and then the other direction by the rods 16, and the ingers 14 raised and depressed alternately, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. It will be noted that the vertically-vibrating ngers also have longitudinal movement back and forthimparted to them by the separator 9, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) vand this longitudinal movement of the fingers facilitates the separation of the corn from the shucks.

The shucks and cobs together travel up the inclined bottom 11 in the usual Way until they reach the end of the same, when they fall upon the vertically-vibrating fingers 14. The side boards 12 and 13 prevent the shucks and cobs from falling out at one or the other side of the lfingers and direct the path of blast issuing from the shoel 6 through the fingers. As soon as the cobs andshucks fall upon said fingers they are agitated by the shaking movement imparted to said fingers,which, together with the blast from the shoe, passing in an upA ward direction between said fingers, causes the shucks to pass to the outer free ends of said iingers, whereupon said shucks are car-A ried by said blast from the machine. The cobs in the meantime, being heavier than the shucks, fall through the openings between the fingers and pass downwardly from the machine. In the drawings the arrows with the full barb show the path of the cobs, the arrows with half-barb the direction of the blast, and the arrows having no barb the path of the shucks.

I am aware that other forms of shuck and cob separators have been designed heretofore; but these previously-constructed shuck and cob separators vibrate horizontally, whereas in my invention the shuck and cob separator vibrates vertically, which is a decided advan- IOC tage over said previous constructions, in that it produces a more thorough agitation and thus more effectually loosens the shucks from the cobs.

In order to segregate and stack the cobs and shucks at widely-separated points, I provide the sheller with a carrier 1S, which is of the ordinary construction, except that it is mounted in a peculiar' manner, so as to be shiftable. .The manner of mounting the same so as to make said carrier shiftable is no part of the present invention, and is covered byv Letters Patent No. 399,211, granted `to me on the 5th day of March, 1889. I prefei` to have the shiftable carrier or stacker swung to one side of the machine, so that the cobs in passing through the lfingers will fall upon s'aid carrier and-be removed and stacked at some remote point, while the shucks will befblown over the sides of the carrier by the draft is--V suing from the shoe 6 and will fall near the machine.

A chute 19 may be arranged below the fingers 14, and thecobs will then fall upon the chute and be carried from the machine, and the carrier vmay be swung laround so as to have the shucks fall upon it, and the shucks rater, from which shaft said fingers extend,

arms 16, rigidly secured to said shaft and pivotally affixed to a stationary part of the machine, and side boards 12 andl, extending from said vibrating separator, for thepurpose described. f VIn testimony whereof I have hereunto set myh'and anduaftixed my seal, this 14thday of May, `1889, in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM s. REEDER. [L si] Vitnesses: u.

A. C. FOWLER, M. S. REEDER. 

